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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Chaucer scholars, Works by Geoffrey Chaucer, English words first attested in Chaucer, Chaucer coming in contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio, D. W. Robertson, Jr., John V. Fleming, Peter Ackroyd, Philippa Roet, Literary nominalism, Ewald Flugel, George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Muscatine, Chaucer's influence on fifteenth-century Scottish literature, Walter William Skeat, Thomas Chaucer, Derek Brewer, William Calin, Bernhard Egidius Konrad ten Brink, Treatise on the Astrolabe, Johann August Hermann Koch, Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer Secondary School, Wolfgang Clemen, Nevill Coghill, Thomas Tyrwhitt, Adam Pinkhurst, Stephanie Trigg, Edith Rickert, Helen Cooper, John Strong Perry Tatlock, Thomas Lounsbury, The Chaucer Review, Alice de la Pole, Julius Zupitza, Boece, Hermiene Ulrich, Wilhelm Hertzberg, Peter Goodall, Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery. Excerpt: English words first attested in Chaucer are a set of about two thousand English words that Geoffrey Chaucer is credited as being the first use found today in existing manuscripts. This does not mean that he was the person to introduce these words into English, but that the earliest extant uses of these words are found in Chaucerian manuscripts. The words were already in everyday speech in 14th century England (especially London) and other parts of Europe. The claim is that these words are found for the first time in written manuscripts where he introduced them in one of his extensive works from 1374 - 1400 as the first author to use these particular words. Many of Chaucer's special manuscript words from the 14th century are used today: absent, accident, add, agree, bagpipe, border, box, cinnamon, desk, digestion, dishonest, examination, finally, flute, funeral, galaxy, horizon, infect, ingot, latitude, laxative, miscarry, nod, obscure, observe, outrageous, ...
